Women Leading Education Across the Continents

Rachel McNae; Elizabeth C. Reilly

doi:10.5771/9781475840728

Summary

Women Leading Education Across the Continents: Harnessing the Joy in Leadership is the fifth collection of research from scholars around the globe who seek to understand the successes, challenges and progress of girls and women leading in education. Using a variety of approaches to their inquiries, the scholars and practitioners in this book discover and document the work of women leaders throughout the world, seeking to understand in more nuanced ways how to chart a path for a more just society for all. This volume explores the status of women in educational leadership internationally, the factors that affect their leadership, their personal experiences and stories, and their work within the broader context of human rights. The journey of discovery in these pages invites titiro whakamua—looking toward a world for the good of all people.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-4070-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-4072-8
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 208
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword. Women Creating a Cultural Shift in Educational Leadership No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Prologue. Kupu whakataki. Titiro whakamuri, kia pai ai te titiro whakamua: Look to the Past to Understand the Present and Prepare the Pathway Forward No access
1. Chapter 1. Overview: The Status of Women in Educational Leadership: Global Insights No access
2. Chapter 2. Your Eyes Are Beautiful: Profiles of 21st Century Afghan Women Leaders No access
3. Chapter 3. Women’s Leadership in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands Secondary Schools: A Case Study No access
4. Chapter 4. The Impact of Culture on Women’s Leadership in Vanuatu Secondary Schools No access
5. Chapter 5. Factors Affecting Women’s Access to Higher Education in India No access
1. Chapter 6. Overview: Factors Impacting Women’s Leadership No access
2. Chapter 7. The Relationship of Stress and Health in Women Superintendents in the United States No access
3. Chapter 8. Women’s Perceptions of Risk When Leading and Engaging in Educational Change No access
4. Chapter 9. Barriers and Strategies: Stories of Women’s Rise to Leadership in Higher Education in the Philippines No access
5. Chapter 10. Scaling the Mountain to Principalship in New Zealand: The Enablers and Barriers in a Female Principal’s Journey No access
1. Chapter 11. Overview: Experiences of Women in Educational Leadership No access
2. Chapter 12. Dancing Into the Unknown: Learning Leadership No access
3. Chapter 13. Know Thyself: The Influence of Career Orientations on Women Education Leaders’ Career Decisions No access
4. Chapter 14. Women Leading for Social Justice in Higher Education: Surfacing Hope in Challenging Times No access
5. Chapter 15. Minority Women Leaders in Higher Education No access
1. Chapter 16. Overview: Women’s Rights Are Human Rights No access
2. Chapter 17. Malaysian Muslim Women Academics and Gender Equality: Situated Constructions No access
3. Chapter 18. Adopting a Paradigm Shift of Equality for Leadership: Equality Through Human Rights No access
4. Chapter 19. Affirmative Action: An Effective Policy for Gender Parity in Leadership in Ontario’s Public Education System? No access
5. Chapter 20. Interrupting Whiteness: An Auto-Ethnography of a Black Female Leader in Higher Education No access
1. Chapter 21. Overview: Women’s Leadership Stories No access
2. Chapter 22. Making Inroads and Making a Difference: Women Leading Indonesian Junior and Senior Secondary Private Madrasahs No access
3. Chapter 23. Celebrating Leadership Learning in Education Across Continents: Experiences of Women Leading in Rwanda No access
4. Chapter 24. A Female Leader in a Man’s World: Stories of Women Leaders of Catholic Schools No access
5. Chapter 25. Leadingmamas: A Visual Ethnography No access
6. Chapter 26. The Path of Leadership for Women in Pakistan: Critical Reflections No access
7. Chapter 27. Balancing the Yang and the Yin Through Source-fully Intelligent Education No access
Afterword. Upoko whakakapi: Mana Wāhine No access Pages 187 - 190
Index No access Pages 191 - 198
About the Editors No access Pages 199 - 200
About the Section Editors No access Pages 201 - 202
About the Contributors No access Pages 203 - 208